Selective media shyness

THERE’S too much suspicion attached to this Naomi Osaka saga about her serious, heartrending fear of media and the public’s glare to swallow it whole.

Why then does she pose for the cover of Sports Illustrated’s hubba-hubba swimsuit edition? Why did she shun interviews except those conducted by the Japanese TV entity to which she’s under contract?

And Friday, Osaka became the international showpiece of Japan’s Olympic Games’ opening ceremony.

Sorry to be so cynical, but when two plus two equals anything other than four ...

Florida remains headquarters to highly compromised Florida football players — student-athletes — recruited by highly compromised Florida colleges.

Those fine folks at Miami have found yet another. Safety Avantae Williams, a 20-year-old redshirt freshman and four-star recruit, has been dismissed from the team after his arrest last week for three counts of aggravated assault against his 31weeks pregnant girlfriend.

ESPN is going to produce 10 alternative “Monday Night Football” telecasts that will appear on ESPN2 and star Peyton and Eli Manning. How would you like to be the regular “MNF” team — Steve Levy, Brian Griese and Louis Riddick — and have your network be similarly supportive and committed to you?

YES’s all-times score box, that gives the name of the batter as well as the pitcher, remains 50 percent more instantaneously useful than SNY’s, which only names the pitcher. There’s nothing wrong with better-TV “stealing.”

Reader Doug McBroom can’t wait for the first GuardiansAngels game. “That’s the righty, Curtis Sliwa, warming in the bullpen.”

Time for Brooks Koepka to cease fueling his childish feud with Bryson DeChambeau with petulant taunts — though I suspect his Nike endorsers love him for it.

According to impeachable sources, Capital One and Subway will combine to launch an ad campaign with the catchphrase, “What’s in your sandwich?”